White milk jug with gold lining around the rim and handle.

Logo- Portsmouth, City Arms. Crown, star and crescent moon on shield.

Object ID: 1527 - Milk Jug

Dimensions: 130mm by 117mm

Maker: N/A

White crochet milk jug cover, with eight reddish brown small decorative beads.

Object ID: 1528 - Milk Jug Cover

WhiteGeologists Pick. Wooden handle. Steel pick head.

Object ID: 1524 - Geologists Pick

Dimensions: handle is 255 by 30, pick head is 125 by 37 crochet milk jug cover, with eight reddish brown small decorative beads.

Old steel wood working tool.

Object ID: 1525 - Plane- woodworking tool

Dimensions: 140 by 80 by 255

WSteel boot-lasts. Three different sizes.

Object ID: 1526 - Bootlasts

Dimensions: A 130 by 45 by 45, G 130 by 70 by 45, E 220 by 62 by 45hite milk jug with gold lining around the rim and handle.

Typewriter, portable with attachable wooden compartment/case.

Mercedes brand, German made.

Paper covered with a blackish brown color.

Typewriter is metal with rubber roller.

Object ID: 1523 - Typewriter

Dimensions: 136mm by 310mm by 315mm.

Maker: Mercedes Buromaschinen - Werke A-G

Celluloid doll with blue eyes dressed in off white hand made knitted bonnet, dress, booties and pants.

Object ID: 1522 - Celluloid Doll

Dimensions: H 550mm, Head circumference 435mm, Waist 433mm

Maker: Lucky Toys

Set of 5 green metal canisters with lids which have black knobs. The canisters have the words a, FLOUR b, SUGAR c, RICE d, SAGO e. TEA printed on them.

Object ID: 1521 - Set of 5 metal canisters

Dimensions: a, H 230mm, Circumference 620mm b, H 190mm C 575mm c, H 170mm C 530 d, H 165mm C 490mm e, H 145m C 435mmm

White wooden dressing table on turned wooden legs. Chest of drawers has 2 small drawers at the top and 3 long drawers. On top of the chest of drawers is a mirror in the centre with a small drawer on each side of it. Top has decorative turned wood upright posts. All drawers have round handles.

Object ID: 1520 - Dressing Table

Dimensions: L 1667mm, W 907mm, H 384mm Height from top of drawers to top of mirror. 835mm

A piece of white cotton fabric with broderie anglaise trim.

Object ID: 1519 - Cotton Fabric

Dimensions: L 495mm, W 965mm

Small child's white cotton sleeveless petticoat with broderie anglaise trim on the skirt and drawstring neck.

Object ID: 1518 - Petticoat - child's

Dimensions: W 370mm under arms L 480mm

White cotton camisole with crocheted short sleeves and upper half. Opening at the front with 3 different white buttons, with a loop of cotton from the bottom button.

Object ID: 1517 - Camisole

Dimensions: H 335mm, W 600mm across sleeves, W 310mm at waist.

Oval shaped homemade metal meat cover with a metal handle on the top.

Object ID: 1515 - Meat cover

Dimensions: H 207mm, W 310mm, L 450mm

Handmade metal bread tin, fastened with 3 rivets on each corner

Object ID: 1516 - Bread tin

Dimensions: H 95 W 160 L 340

Maker: Jim Turner

a) white painted metal oval shaped bath with a handle on each end b) white painted metal stand with shelf at the base. Base has two holes for bowl and soap dish. c) white enamel bowl with a dark blue rim. d) soap dish and strainer , dark blue enamel with 2 grooves underneath.

Object ID: 1511 - Baby bath

Dimensions: a) H 230mm, W 400mm, L 715mm b) H475mm, W 320mm, L 610mm c) D 155mm, H 45mm d) L 132mm, W 102mm, H 30mm

Wooden High chair painted green Has a tray covered with brown contact?/Laminate? which can be lifted and placed behind the seat. Has a step for child's feet to rest on.

Object ID: 1512 - High chair

Dimensions: H 910mm W 33.5 mm at seat D 33 mm Tray 380mm W 492mm

On International Women’s Day, March 8 2008, this wool tapestry was presented to the Museum to honour Australian women involved in pioneering aviation.

The Australian Pioneer Aviatrix Tapestry found a home here at the suggestion of pioneer woman pilot and our then Patron, Nancy-Bird Walton.

Started in 2002 and completed in 2008, this community project took over 7,000 hours to weave.

Measuring 5 metres x 1.3 metres, the tapestry was worked on by people from Australia and all over the world.

To create this woven tapestry, a grant of $23,000 from the Queensland Gaming Benefit Fund was used to purchase materials - including a purpose-built loom and merino wool from the Victorian Tapestry Guild.

The women featured are:

• Shirley ANDERSON
• Sister Anne-Marie JENSEN
• Rosemary ARNOLD
• Alana ARNOTT (Corbin)
• Peggy KELMAN (McKillop)
• Nancy BIRD-WALTON
• Nan MANTHORPE
• Lores BONNEY
• MEIN, Joanne - 1971
• Mary BRYANT
• Robin MILLER (Dicks)
• Christine DAVEY
• Mary O’BRIEN
• Rosemary DE PIERRES
• Margaret PRIOR
• Mitzi FARR
• Senja ROBEY
• Mardi GHETING
• Dale Priscilla ROGER-JONES
• Jenny HAUGHTON
• Priscilla TOOLE
• Bonnie HENDERSON
• Ellen WARREN
• Helen HENDERSEN
• Marion 'Brownie' WRIGHT
• Minta HENNESSEY
• Dr Dorothy HERBERT
• Beryl YOUNG
• Heather INNES

The motifs are not without humour. in addition to the caricature portraits, you can find a stork carrying a baby, witches on broomsticks and chickens.

Object ID: 1510 - The Australian Pioneer Aviatrix Tapestry

Date Made: 2002 - 2008

Materials: Merino wool

Dimensions: 130 cm high x 500 cm wide

Maker: The Tableland Tapestry Weavers, principal weavers Lynda Price and Dale Roger-Jones and hundreds of volunteers

An 18ct gold brooch shaped like a grapevine, twigs and grapes with safety chain and pin.

The symbol of vines and grapes was a popular motif in Australian goldfields jewellery manufacture from the early gold rushes in the Central Goldfields of Victoria from the 1850s.

Representing the Christian faith, brooches like these enjoyed a resurgence in popularity during the Kalgoorlie gold rushes from the 1890s until the 1930s.

This brooch was a gift for Marie Otillie Johannsen from her eldest brother Wilhelm Hoffman in 1895. As Marie was 12 or 13 years old at the time, and we have confirmation souvenirs from the same year belonging to her, we can assume it was a reverent gift to commemorate a milestone considered highly significant within the Lutheran Chuch to which the family belonged at the time.

Object ID: JT04 - Grapevine motif gold brooch

Date Made: 1895

Maker: G.R. Addis

A finely worked sterling silver brooch shaped like a daffodil with leaves with a safety chain and pin.

While the daffodil’s primary symbolism is that of new beginnings, rebirth and the coming of spring, it has many others.

Some of the most common meanings for the daffodil flower are Creativity, Inspiration, Renewal and Vitality, Awareness and Inner Reflection, Memory and Forgiveness.

It belonged to Marie Otillie Johannsen, whose second daughter Trudy (Gertrude), sent it from Darwin as a Mother’s Day Present to Alice Springs where Marie was living.

Object ID: JT07 - Silver daffodil brooch

Date Made: 1940

9ct rose gold hollow curb link bracelet with padlock clasp and safety chain.

This bracelet looks heavy, but the curb links are hollow, as was common for this style of jewellery in the early 1900s.

It was a present for Marie Otillie Johannsen from her husband Gerhardt after his return to Deep Well Station in the Northern Territory after selling cattle in Adelaide.

Object ID: JT09 - Gold curb link bracelet with heart shaped clasp

Date Made: 1918

Maker: J.W. Wendt

This 18ct gold brooch features a crown shape motif with an opal at the centre and gold-plated tassels. These elements reflect a fascination with the Orient, which was popular in the Victorian and Edwardian eras.

This piece would have been highly fashionable, using motifs from ancient Egypt which were exciting discoveries at the time.

Once belonging to Marie Otillie Johannsen, her husband Gerhardt bought this brooch from a cameleer hawker travelling north while the couple and their family were living and working at Hermannsberg.

Object ID: JT08 - Gold brooch with opal

Date Made: 1914

This walker was made using plans published in Farmer’s Weekly, a magazine published by the primary Producers Association of WA (now the WA Farmer’s Federation).

There were other plans in the magazine for items that could be made from materials that might be found around the farm.

The walker is well-constructed and finished off cleanly to prevent children from scratching or injure themselves from protruding parts.

The donor, Jan Millington, remembers her mother saying: 'I could dress you up and put you in this and you’d stay clean'.

Resourcefulness, recycling and long term care of belongings for people living in remote parts of Australia illustrate the stark contrast between urban and outback lives.

Object ID: WMA 1504 - Child's scooter / walker

Date Made: 1938

Materials: recycled tin, turned table leg, conduit, wood, metal and rubberwheels

Maker: Sid Groves, the donor's father

Joan Kirner, Press Photograph, 1990

Signed on reverse:

JK

Premier 1990

The other men in my life!

Age Photo

Taken in 1990 when Joan Kirner became Victoria's first woman Premier.

Object ID: WMA 1498 - Joan Kirner, the other men in my life, 1990

Dimensions: 250 mm h x 350 mm w

This scrap book contains patterns and advertisements for knitting and crocheting, compiled by Mien Blom.

Object ID: NPWHF1250 - Scrapbook - Knitting and Crocheting Ladies', Gents', Children's Wear

Date Made: undated

Materials: Paper and ink.

Dimensions: Height 33.5 cm Width 25 cm

Maker: Mien Blom

This book contains patterns and advertisements.  Traditionally crochet was worked almost exclusively in very fine cotton yarn to create or embellish household items such as curtains, table cloths or place mats.  Crochet was often added as decoration or trimming on collars and fine lawn handkerchiefs.  The frill on the front of a man's shirt was often crochet work.  Crochet hooks are usually made from steel, aluminium or plastic in a range of sizes according to their diameter.  It has ninety-six pages and the book is in good condition. 

Object ID: NPWHF1244 - "The Harmony Guide to 100's More Crochet Stitches"

Date Made: 1992

Materials: Paper and ink.

Dimensions: Height 30 cm Width 21 cm

Maker: Proost International Book Production

Compact:  8 cm wide by 6.3 cm deep (not including clasp) by 1 cm high; contains sponge and under the door marked with a W (or crown) with in an inverted triangle beneath KG is a border of pinkish-coloured powder.

Object ID: NPWHF1452 - Compact

Materials: metal

Dimensions: 8 cm wide by 6.3 cm deep (not including clasp) by 1 cm high

There is seldom to be found in Australia one publication that has a variety of knitting patterns, featuring overseas designs but using locally available pure wool yarns.  Our belief that the Australian knitter would appreciate such a book prompted us to utilize the resources of our extensive International Wool Secretariat network.  The design were written in Australia and garments knitted and photographed locally.  The inclusion of two Australian designers illustrates the extent and talent available locally in the field of fashion knitting.  We know you will enjoy knitting from this book and making for yourself your own fabulous international design.  The book has a hundred and four pages and in excellent condition.  

Object ID: NPWHF1233 - ''The Creators; Exclusive Hand Knits from International Designers''

Date Made: 1986

Materials: Paper and ink.

Dimensions: Height 28.5 cm Width 21 cm

Maker: The Australian Wool Corporation.

This is a limited edition pattern book of designer collection.  It contains the Designer Sweater by Denise Rothfield, Koala Jumper by Graeme Last, and Jacket in Three Yarns by Yvonne Newell to name a few.  It also mentions that the correct tension is essential; if there are less stitches than stated to 10 cm your tension is too loose - use smaller needles; if there are more stitches your tension is too firm - use larger needles.  Best results will be achieved by using the specified Thorobred Scheepjeswol yarns as this pattern has been specially written for Thorobred Scheepjeswol.  It has fifty pages and is in excellent condition.

Object ID: NPWHF1149 - Pattern book, ''Thorobred Scheepjeswol 1985 Designer Collection'' No. 6231

Date Made: 1985

Materials: Paper and ink.

Dimensions: Height 29.5 cm Width 21 cm

Maker: Thorobred Scheepjeswol Ltd.

Suitcase Cardboard, metal and fabric suitcase has two keyed clasps locks. The interior is lined with a crinkly fabric.

Stockings The stockings have never been used are in the box. Made by Kolotex Hosiery (Australia) Pty. Ltd. they are under the Clings label, 15 Denier seamless stretch “guaranteed never to ladder”.

Object ID: NPWHF1443 a,b - Suitcase and Stockings

Date Made: circa 1950

Materials: various

Dimensions: Suitcase 75 cm w x 24 cm h x 48 cm l

Maker: Kolotex Hosiery (Australia) Pty. Ltd.

Australian Women's Weekly All About Pastry Book 1.  Measures 28.5 cm wide by 21.5 cm long.  No tears, stains, spots.  Sixteen numbered pages.  Had been bound with a staple.  May 10, 1967.

Object ID: NPWHF1441 - Australian Women's Weekly All About Pastry Book 1

Materials: paper

Dimensions: 28.5 cm wide by 21.5 cm long

Maker: The Australian Women's Weekly